Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-15
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The Bishop Brothers, of Eustis, will
! establish bank in Brooksville on April L.
A.C. Everett, practical printer, viii
soon issue a paper at Charlotte Harbor.
The Irish potato crops In Madison
| county are looking finely now and bid
tair to make large yield.
1t W. ID. Turnkey can get a guarantee
| fund Of $500 he Will proceed at once to
establish newspaper at Lake Weir.
The Circuit Court for Clay county will
convene on the fourth Tuesday, Marcn
-. The docket Will be, as usual, light
one.
A boy was recently horn in Putnam
| county, near Clay, who possesses six
grandmothers ana who also has seven
unces named William.
Beyond nipping b sans slightly the cold
weather OF last week did no damage IN
! fernando county. In some localities
there was frost on Monday and Tuesday
mornings; the rest Of the week was
balmy and beautiful.
DR.. n, Hart, who liyes some three miles
from Brooksvllle, has curiosity growing
in tho shape OF a MoiltenlS orange tree.
IL is only sixteen inches high and has
FULLY 100 blossoms on it. DIR. Hart has
two or three OF this variety, which he OBJ
tanned from the Agricultural Depart
IuSub dJ w DuJ ODtv ku6 Ouo
mentioned has any blossoms on it.
The lumber tor the Presby terrain church
at Brooksville is now being sawed by
Capt. DAVIS, who gives special reduc-
ton in price. 1t will therefore not be
long before BrOoksville Will have her
third church building, which will be both
handsome and amply large Tor all imme-
date requirements. With three new
and attractive churches Methodist, Bap-
list and Presbyterian) and a first-class
academy building Brooksville Will shortly
take her deserved rank among the most
attractive and prosperous interior towns
OF the State.
Brooksville News: We hear considera-
BILE complaint that the orange trees are
not blooming generally This season. In
some of the Oldest and finest groves in
this county not one-half OF the trees arc
in bloom, and it IS even worse on the high
pine lands Ia Sumter county and around
Lake Griffin. The writer has noticed
several groves in the Vicinity of Wild
wood and oxford, each or which should
have u hundred trees In bloom, and yet
not more than twenty In each have any
blossoms. This is attributed to the trees
putting on an unusual growth OF wood TO
the detriment Of the Irult-bearlng twlgs.
Lieut.S. W. Sackett, United States En-
gineer, will be in Fort Myers about
March IL, and Will proceed TO survey the
upper CalOosahatchee river, with view
to improving tire navigation OF this beau
tiful stream, aud to ascertain ifthe clean
ing out OF the logs, snags, etc., OF the
upper river would be likely to cause an
overflow of banks by too great rush.
ing Of water from the lakes through the
canals OF the Okeechobee Drainage Com
pany. Mr.. Hendry says that owing TO an
apprehension by some OF the settlers
along the river that the Improvement
OF the river above them would prove dam
aging to them, the work of clearing the
river has been suspended, and that "a part
or all of the $4,000 appropriated by Con.
gress will now be exhausted in this eX.
animation. The completion OF the work
will give a through and interrupted ill.,
land steamboat route from the Cult to
KlssImmee City Via Lake Okeechobee and
hissimmee river. This improvement IN
connection with the great drainage
scheme secures to the Caloosah atchee a
bright future.
meeting OF the citizens Of Melrose
was held on March 3, at which resolu.
tons were adopted f0voring the lorna
tlon OF another county from portions OF
Clay, Bradford, Putnam and Alachua.